i'm going to try doing some duo-uploads... the bands themselves will likely be totally unconnected, but i'm going to focus on my absolute favorite bands of all time that most have overlooked.tracklisting:
01 moss icon - guatemala
02 moss icon - i'm back sleeping, or fucking, or something
03 moss icon - what they lack
04 moss icon - divinity cove
05 moss icon - happy (unbounded glory)
01 the wipers - is this real
02 the wipers - mystery
03 the wipers - alien boy
04 the wipers - don't know what i am
05 the wipers - telepathic love
Moss Icon was an Annapolis, Maryland emo band from 1986 to 1991. The original members were Jonathan Vance, Tonie Joy, Monica DiGialleonardo, and Mark Laurence. Moss Icon are most known for their influence on the splinter genre of punk known as Emo, and affiliation to the original DC bands born in the so-called "Revolution Summer" of 1985, including Rites of Spring, Gray Matter, Embrace, and Maryland's The Hated.
The Wipers were a punk rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1977 by guitarist Greg Sage, drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal. The Wipers were one of the earliest American purveyors of the genre, and the group's tight song structure and use of heavy distortion has been hailed as extremely influential by numerous critics and musicians including Nirvana who covered many of their songs.
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2 comments:
The Moss Icon stuff definitely cleared up my remaining misconceptions about emo. I can definitely see your point on it having some things in common with metal, black metal in particular. It might be worth it for me to look further into the genre.
Loving The Wipers. Some great punk right there. I think I'll look for an album of theirs this weekend.
Keep up the great work with the compilations, Afterstasis!
The problem with the definitions of almost any musical genre is it only seems to take one or two key people to misidentify something then suddenly the whole category is getting muddled. But all that aside..
Gotta give this one two thumbs up, enough to consider tossing these guys into my list of .. things I need to eventually buy.
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